“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
